These are the Talking Points for the Fedora 29 release. For information on how these talking points were chosen, see Talking Points SOP. They are intended to help Ambassadors quickly present an overview of highlighted features when talking about the release, and to help drive content for the release, etc.

The talking points are based in part on the Change Set for this release.

Overall Release Story

Releases may slip if Fedora 29 isn't ready for our users, but the schedule calls for a beta release at the middle of September.

Fedora-Wide Changes and Improvements

Changes to talk about for regular users

Changes affecting security

Changes to talk about for developers

Fedora Atomic Host

Fedora Server

Fedora Workstation

GNOME 3.30

Fedora 29 features GNOME 3.30 as the default desktop environment. GNOME 3.30 includes a number of enhancements to the core applications, including performance improvements in GJS (this should improve GNOME Shell as well as other GJS-based applications).